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jaystephens

@jaystephens@mastodon.social

Banner: Black, Pirate Party flag on right Avi: 3 Arrows symbol, white on red

Social media rant: https://is.gd/f4Py80

Writes fiction
Tries to be a good person
CSIRO Technical writer, Scientific Compute team
Pirate Party Foreign Relations chair 2021-23
Dad to 2 kids
Personal account, personal views

Born Shetland. Live Bundjalung/Turrbal Country. Always was, always will be.

They/he | pragmatist | reader | atheist | left-ecomodern | recaf | vego | solar+nuclear | 324ppm | TTRPG |
#tfr

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GottaLaff, to random
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Many of us have been sounding the alarm on this for years.

Welp.

Via Kyle Griffin:

In an interview with KDKA-TV, says he's "looking at" policies that would restrict access to

jaystephens,
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@GottaLaff
Every positive change in society since the divine right of kings is a front in the culture war. It's just that some of them (as yet) remain far from the frontlines.

jaystephens, to random
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Is it just me or is there almost nothing in the Australian media about the massive unrest right next door in New Caledonia?

deadsuperhero, to random
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Weird question: can anyone recommend an email hosting service that is more or less just an inbox/outbox? No groupware or collaboration, just spin up a bunch of accounts and integrate them with your own suite of apps?

I’m really interested in using Nextcloud as a full replacement for Google Workspace in our organization. It’s really good! There are ways to automatically provision accounts in there, through SSO or other kinds of integration, so that new people get access on their first login.

But, almost every hosted email service is kind of trying to be their own Google Workspace alternative, with bells and whistles that I don’t really need.

jaystephens,
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@deadsuperhero
BlueMail maybe? That works well on my personal website, not sure if it can be installed on NextCloud.

jaystephens,
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@Baku @Seagoon_
If you don't mind me asking, what (broadly speaking) are your respective backgrounds that led to you both moving round a lot and changing schools >yearly etc?

jaystephens,
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@Baku woah that's an interesting backstory thanks. I was thinking like "me=unstable parents, him=military parents" level of detail lol.
I was asking coz I've noticed that I (child of hippies, always movin') have a lot in common with children of military folks (always posted elsewhere, always movin'), and wondered if you'd hit a parallel dynamic.

grimalkina, to random
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I can't figure out if mastodon is a high context culture or not. People seem to be expected to give long introductions and do a lot of identity/positionality disclosure, but also an enormous reply guy culture which is defined by low context drive-by. Conversational turn-taking is extremely low compared to other platforms ime, but depth-seeking is high. What an interesting mix.

*obviously, these experiences are all situated within my own network effects, and I'm not well networked here.

jaystephens,
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@grimalkina yeah same weird mix here.
My part of the birdsite was an outlier in similar ways though.

jaystephens,
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@grimalkina I curated both heavily so if your experience here feels weird I can only conclude my best curation efforts converge on that same weridness lol

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StillIRise1963, to random
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When your gay friends are stripped of their marriages, tell them you didn’t vote because you wanted to make a statement about Gaza.

jaystephens,
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@StillIRise1963 once again for those at the back of the room: voting for a party isn't finding an ideal partner who matches your worldview, it's picking a direction of movement from the status quo.

jaystephens, to random
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Lichen on a fallen log

onelson, (edited ) to movies
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Background TV as I wind down my work day.

I'll work my way through the main 9 movies over the next few days, and starting with The Phantom Menace might be sacrilege to some, but who cares.

jaystephens,
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@onelson honestly episode # order isn't a bad viewing order imvho...

But I'm not really a huge star wars fan, so I'm allowed to think that.

timrichards, (edited ) to melbourne
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For - here's the shop window of T Cavallaro & Sons in the Footscray district of Melbourne, Australia. It's been making and selling its popular cannoli here for decades.

jaystephens,
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@timrichards oh bloody hell that is a pilgrimage next time I'm in Melbs.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Do you agree with Aristotle that are three types of government: monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy?

#EvanPoll #poll

jaystephens,
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@evan
qualified yes: It's one of the best taxonomies, but there are other equally good ways to slice it.

jaystephens,
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@travisfw @evan that 3-way split is about who's in charge (king, nobles, [all] people). It's a few-many axis essentially.
Other good axes to slice the pie along include:

a technocracy-ideology axis (how China has moved on that axis over last few decades is fascinating).

a force-persuasion axis (whoever's got the power, do they keep it more out of murdoch media type persuasion, or N. Korea type fear of brute force?)

jaystephens, to Trains
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Oh for fuck's sake. I've really really tried to plan a July Europe holiday that minimises carbon footprint, uses etc.
Night train doesn't allow you to book very far in advance so there was no choice but to book the accommodation etc ahead. Calendar alarm tells me today's the day I can book the night train
:(

EU_Commission, to random
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We are a Union of 27 countries and 450 million people sharing one future.

Diversity is what defines, unites us.
Diversity is also what makes us love the Fediverse.

As we mark two years on Mastodon, thank you for enlivening the conversation with insightful comments and content.

Love does not increase after the first day, but it deepens.

Let's make this journey even more engaging!

What topics did you like the most and would like to see more often 👇

jaystephens,
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@EU_Commission @chantal @osma yes, this.
I've enjoyed your account, but it doesn't feel fully part of the fediverse because it doesn't have conversations.
It doesn't matter if it takes a week or even a month - make your account a way to ask questions and get answers, not a one way broadcasting tool
😀

jaystephens,
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@maegul @vividspecter
Yeah... I'm a100% YIMBY, but the issue I'm seeing for Straya is our status quo of large property developers calling the planning shots can't lead to any of the good outcomes some parts have Europe have seen (e.g. Vienna) and instead seem to point towards entrenching the growing divide between those who can afford a house and those who can't.

evan, (edited ) to random
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"America is worth fighting for."

#EvanPoll #poll

jaystephens,
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@evan voted strongly agree and I'm shocked by the responses honestly

jaystephens,
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@Grant_M @evan there's a lot of strong idealists out there I guess

jaystephens, to random
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Chess set's lost a black rook, so we're improvising

andrewstroehlein, to random
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I often wonder: is there anyone in the UK who can show any improvements in their day-to-day life as a result of Brexit? (apart from politicians who used it to advance their careers, I mean)

https://www.economist.com/britain/2024/04/11/why-most-people-regret-brexit

jaystephens,
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@andrewstroehlein @clayfoot yeah having moved from the UK to Australia... It makes a difference.

jaystephens,
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@CEOofmyhouse56 @Seagoon_

I've never owned a TV
I've never owned a cat
I've never bungee jumped

jaystephens,
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@CEOofmyhouse56 we're so surrounded by screens... I just never saw the point in buying another screen where someone else schedules the programming.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Honest question for white people that don't consider themselves racist:

White nationalists have been vocal about their attacks on DEI. These are literally the same people that talk about Charlottesville, Jan 6th, and ethnic cleansing.

They've laid out exactly how they plan to destroy DEI.

  1. Make false claims that DEI is about giving unqualified Black people an unfair advantage

  2. Work with racist politicians to use this as a pretext to make all DEI programs illegal.

1/n

jaystephens,
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@mekkaokereke I think you are right.
Personally, I have spoken up more than once, but I have also remained silent because of (at different times):

  • fear / cowardice / hesitation
  • not noticing the problem until afterwards then kicking myself
  • inability to speak out in a way I'm confident won't make things worse for the target.
dickrubin716, to bookstodon
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Wifey had an old episode on of where Stabler goes undercover to buy a hooker. Right when a cash exchange is made his team comes in to arrest her. I think it would’ve been more entertaining if she was also undercover from a different department and tried to arrest him. That would be an entertaining to expand into a book: 2 undercover cops unknown to each other try to arrest each other. Know if any books like this? @bookstodon

jaystephens,
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@dickrubin716 @bookstodon I don't know any fiction where exactly that scenario happens, no.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/11/15/Undercover-Detroit-police-attempt-to-arrest-each-other-in-embarassing-drug-bust/8361510804710/

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